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Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/ Fake Food World | 
 enlarge | Author: David Ludwig
Creator: Suzanne Rostler
Publisher: Mariner Books
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0547053681
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.92
EAN: 9780547053684
Publication Date: March 18, 2008
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Product Description
In a world dominated by fast food and fake food, establishing healthy eating habits in children is one of the greatest concerns for parents -- and potentially one of the greatest challenges. Fortunately, the renowned physician Dr. David Ludwig developed a proven lifestyle plan that has benefited thousands of families. Here he shares his nine-week program, offering the tools -- including tasty recipes, motivational tips, and activities -- that can help families prevent the kitchen table from becoming a battleground.
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Not a diet, a better way to eat August 31, 2010
Craig H. Garver (Tucson, AZ USA)
I bought this book on a recommendation from a website, and though the book is aimed at helping parents prevent obesity in their own children, it is an excellent guide to nutrition and proper eating habits for everyone.
The secret is to reduce the glycemic load that highly processed foods force on the body. This is critical to reducing and controlling weight. Would you believe that eating a potato has almost the same effect as sugar? It's converted almost immediately into sugar.
This is an informative, easy to read book, that doesn't get preachy or force you into a fad diet. One of the recommendations I've seen is to "eat around the perimeter of the store." In other words, the meat, dairy, and produce, the fresh stuff. Forget about the cookies, convenience foods, etc., that populate the center isles. You'll save a ton of money and be far healthier.
Another good tip is to not eat anything your Grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. If you can't pronounce the stuff on the label, don't eat it. Seems to work.
Great little book.
Almost perfect book June 5, 2010
WashingtonMom
When my child was diagnosed as obese, we looked for help everywhere and anywhere. I finally came across this book and it has become the family bible. The book starts with basic nutrition, obesity-related health problems, and then talks about how our environment has changed over the past decades to promote obesity. It then talks about a low glycemic index diet and gives a 9 week battle plan for changing eating and activity habits. Even though I am not entirely sold on the low glycemic index theory, the end result is a fruit, vegetables, whole grains, and whole foods based diet that few could argue with. The book's advice on how to increase physical activity was realistic and doable. As well as the "formal" activities like walks and playing games, it talks about the importance of frequent, short bursts of activity we all do in life, like taking the stairs, fidgeting, even chewing gum!
The most valuable part of the book for me was how to instill a healthy attitude towards eating in a child. Right now, when my child is young, I can control (more or less!) what goes into his mouth. But when he gets older, the control will shift to him. How to guide him to making healthy decisions without turning him into a calorie-obsessed nervous wreck? The book addresses that by talking about modeling, supporting without dictating, and sharing of your own nutritional approach. These concepts are described in theory and then fleshed out with specific examples.
The tone of this book is very sympathetic, both to the overweight kids and to their parents. In contrast to some of the other reviewers, I did not feel this was repetitive or that I was being talked-down to. I felt like I was listening to someone who finally understood what my family was going through and had a solution. The only thing that I wish this book had discussed was food cues and how to minimize them, which for my family helped a lot.
Ending the Food Fight April 28, 2010
B. Marquis
This book was recommended to me and I was not disappointed. Easy to follow and understand. The recipes in the back are great and my ten year old actually enjoyed them.
great book, March 24, 2010
Diana Cordray
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
very good book to read. son is 11 yrs old and has a belly, trying to stop it and help him eat better. cant bet the price. After a month I have notice he eats less portions.
Low-Carbohydrate Nutrition Will Keep Your Kids Lean And Fit For Life January 6, 2008
Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Man (Spartanburg, SC)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Our most precious commodity in this world are our children and making sure they are eating properly is a challenging task to say the least. With fast food and junk food being dangled in front of them on television commercials and on the Internet using cartoon characters and clever marketing to appeal to them, it's literally a war out there--a "food fight" between parents and their kids about what to eat.
That's why pediatric physician Dr. David Ludwig wrote Ending the Food Fight because he wanted to show parents that it IS possible to feed your children healthy foods without having them pitch a fit. The 9-week OWL program that Dr. Ludwig uses with children all the time at the Children's Hospital Boston has a proven track record of helping even the most defiant, sugar-addicted kids to eat better. It's all found in this book!
You'll recall that Dr. Ludwig has published some research on "fatty liver" being a problem with eating too many carbohydrates, so he is certainly a proponent of livin' la vida low-carb based on what the science has shown him. And applying those principles to children makes sense to him which is the heartbeat of everything he does. If you are a parent, then you should own a copy of Ending the Food Fight.
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